Roll-Out Flooring = Instant Garage Cred

By the time my wife and I were nearly done with a year-long renovation of our home, sprucing the one-car garage took a back seat to more essential areas, deferring my dream of curating a mini-Garage Mahal. The
7.5' x 17' roll for my garage was shipped to my doorstep; though unwieldy,
the 100+ pound tube came tightly wound around a stiff cardboard cylinder and
wrapped in a Saran Wrap-like plastic. The floor rolls out and lays perfectly
flat, with a slightly tacky material underneath gripping the ground. The top surface
feels rubberized and relatively impervious; when some mud tracked onto the surface, it wiped clean without leaving a trace, suggesting it may just survive the
inevitable weeping of internal fluids from my beloved, high-mileage 1977 Mercedes-Benz 450 SL (pictured above).

Though
the laundry list of spruces for my new garage still remains dauntingly long,
the BLT pad is a significant first step toward transforming the
concrete-floored space from raw, unfinished place to park a car, to a spot that
I'll actually look forward to spending time in.